Development Emails Content Analyzer (DECA)

A java tool to automatically recognize sentences in emails that are relevant in the software engineering domain.

Tool description

DECA (Development Emails Content Analyzer) is a Java tool to automatically recognize natural language fragments in emails that are relevant in the software engineering domain. Actually, DECA implements an approach which allows to recognize most informative sentences for development purposes by exploiting a set of recurrent natural language patterns that developers often use in such communication channel. DECA purpose is to capture the intent of each informative sentence (requesting a new feature, description of a problem, or proposing a solution) and consequently to allow developers to better manage the information contained in emails.